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“Primary and post-primary schools are required to allocate 30 minutes a week to Social and Personal Health Education, and Relationships and Sexual Education (RSE) makes up one part of this. A recent study found that sexual and relationship education in schools needs to be overhauled in many countries – including Ireland. The study, which asked students[…]

The right time to enrol your child in primary school depends on the school you are applying to and where you live. Schools set their own policy on when they accept enrolments in their enrolment/admissions policy, which you can obtain from the school on request, or by logging into our website and viewing the enrolment[…]

“A recent study conducted by Dublin City University (DCU) revealed that unfit teenagers are now at the same risk of heart-related disease as a 60-year-old man. Professor Niall Moyna, head of the DCU School of Health and Human Performance, described the findings as “frightening”. The results of the study of Transition Year students found that[…]

Knockanean primary school is due to be redeveloped following the demolition of the current school building. The new building will be a two storey building of 2535 sq. meters. Objections have been raised over the traffic planning of the development. http://bit.ly/2e3J0oH

11 years ago, the Epsen Act (Education for Persons with Special Education Needs) was created to deal with policy, the setting-up of a special education review council and other structural elements, all of which were implemented, but vital sections were ignored. These covered the educational assessment for all children with special educational needs, the development of[…]

A new study by the Economic and Social Research Institute has found that the wellbeing of children is largely dependent on the social and economic standing of their parents despite improvements to health and education. In particular, children from one-parent families experience socio-emotional and behavioural difficulties regardless of the educational standards of the parent. The difference[…]

Budget 2017 promises the provision of 2,400 new teacher posts across the primary and secondary school sector. With an additional 12,000 pupils expected to enrol in school next year, the new posts will help to address this increase. However, it will have no effect on current teacher-pupil ratios. The addition of new Special Needs Assistants[…]

St. Patrick’s Mental Health Services, in conjunction with The National Parents Council-Primary, has carried out an online survey to determine parental attitudes towards the teaching of mental health to primary school students. 99% of parents felt that pupils should start learning about mental health at primary school and 50.5% believed that teachers should be the[…]

Deputy Jan O’Sullivan recently opened new school extension for Parteen NS in Co. Clare. The extension consisted of three new classrooms and 5 new resource rooms to replace the prefab building which were in use. The large school including 20 teachers, were delighted with the long-awaited new building.# http://bit.ly/2dOkY1Y

Hundreds of special needs assistant posts are waiting to be filled due to a backlog of applications for Garda vetting. Under child protection legislation, schools are obliged to ensure that anyone working in education setting where there are children must be vetted. Latest figures show there are almost 400 special needs assistant applications still pending,[…]

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